Another Microsoft Outlook gripe
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 19:07:56 +0000
I'm reading through an email thread. A new message arrives. Outlook switches me to the OLDEST message/thread in my mailbox.
(1) I do not want to be switched out of the thread I am reading. I am a much better judge of when I want to switch tasks than you are.
(1a) Especially if you don't provide a way to switch back to where I was.
(2) If I did want to switch, I might want to be switched to the new message that just arrived. There is no reason I'd want to switch to the oldest message rather than the newest!
I sort my inbox by date, with the oldest at the top. Reading progresses down the list, and I like to read messages in the order they were sent, not the reverse order. So Outlook is jumping to the top of the list. If I sorted my inbox by subject, jumping at random times to the alphabetically first (or last) subject in my inbox would not be welcome. Same for sorting by the senders' names.
This is another MS Just Plain Stupid. Maybe MS-JPS will be another tag for my entries....
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I'm reading through an email thread. A new message arrives. Outlook switches me to the OLDEST message/thread in my mailbox.
(1) I do not want to be switched out of the thread I am reading. I am a much better judge of when I want to switch tasks than you are.
(1a) Especially if you don't provide a way to switch back to where I was.
(2) If I did want to switch, I might want to be switched to the new message that just arrived. There is no reason I'd want to switch to the oldest message rather than the newest!
I sort my inbox by date, with the oldest at the top. Reading progresses down the list, and I like to read messages in the order they were sent, not the reverse order. So Outlook is jumping to the top of the list. If I sorted my inbox by subject, jumping at random times to the alphabetically first (or last) subject in my inbox would not be welcome. Same for sorting by the senders' names.
This is another MS Just Plain Stupid. Maybe MS-JPS will be another tag for my entries....
[This entry was originally posted as https://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/770282.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]